HA! I love stuff like this because there is so much of it when you start to look. Where I live they are keen on pedestrian crossings on corners but save money by not putting up street lighting making accidents more likely than if the person crossing just had to wait a bit. Speed bumps combined with crossings on corners is another one.
I don`t know how a person gets the job of planning our town centers but I think the only question they ask at the interview is "do you know why you have been asked here today?" If you answer no then you get the job.

Norway has a couple of traffic laws that really irritate me too because they seem to have been invented at the time of the horse and cart and are now more likely to cause an accident than prevent one. Just got to keep ing